It was named from Oineus: "Oineus having pressed it in hollow goblets called it wine."[1] Plato says that it is sense-supposing, because it fills our mind full of supposition.[2] Alternatively it is named from benefit [onesis]; Homer [says]: "You will benefit, if you drink."[3] And [he calls] food oneiata from it benefitting us. The poet of the Cypria says: "Surely, Menelaus, the gods made wine best for mortal men to scatter their sorrows."[4] The lines of Eubulus on wine: "For I mix only three kraters for the ones thinking well; one is the krater of health, which they drink from first; the second is of love and pleasure; the third is of sleep; drinking from which those who are called wise walk home; the fourth is no longer ours, but is of hubris; the fifth is of shouting; the sixth is of revel; the seventh is of black eyes, the eighth is of a summoner; the ninth is of bile; the tenth is of madness; so that it makes them throw it out. For much wine poured into one vessel upsets the ones who drank it."[5] And Epicharmus [says]: "out of sacrifice comes feast, and out of feast, drink. [...] Out of drink, revelling; out of revelling, swinishness, and out of swinishness a lawsuit; [...] out of a conviction [sc. in court], chains and gangrene and fines."[6] And Panyassis [says]: "For wine is a benefit equal to fire for men on Earth, a good thing keeping away the bad, a companion to all sorrow."[7]
"There was also barley wine in kraters; in it there was also barley itself level with the brim."[8]